T
Idioms beginning with "T"
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Contents of T:
[there is more than one way to get a pig to market] or [flay a fox] or [skin a cat]
There are always new and different ways to accomplish a difficult task. — A proverb.
* /"How did you get Tommy to study so hard?" Eleanor asked. "I simply disconnected […]
[there is nothing to it]
Informal way to say, "It is easy."
Cooking stir-fried Chinese food is really not difficult at all; in fact, there's nothing to it.
[There you go!]
1. Informal way to say, "You are doing it already and you are doing it well."
"Is roller skating hard?" Freddie asked. "No," Beth replied, "let me show you how to do it. There you go!"
2. See: [THERE YOU ARE] or [HERE YOU ARE] (2).
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[the ropes] {n. plural}, {informal}
Thorough or special knowledge of a job; how to do something; the ways of people or the world.
On a newspaper a cub reporter learns his job from an older reporter who knows the ropes.
* /When you go to a new […]
[the score] {n.}, {slang}
The truth; the real story or information; what is really happening; the way people and the world really are.
Very few people know the score in politics.
You are too young to know the score yet.
* /What's the score […]
[the three R's] {n. phr.}
(W)riting, reading, and (a)rithmetic, the three basic skills of an elementary education.
Barry has completed the three R's, but otherwise he has had little formal education.
[the ticket] {n.}
Exactly what is needed. — Often used with "just".
This airtight locker is just the ticket for storing your winter clothes.
[the tracks] {n.}
The line between the rich or fashionable part of town and the poor or unfashionable part of town.
The poor children knew they would not be welcome on the other side of the tracks.
* /Mary's mother did not want her to date Jack, […]